The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
GEORGE HERBERTThe scalded head feares cold water.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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The offender never pardons.
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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The life of man is a winter way.
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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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